Thank you, everyone, for taking a look. I guess I would make for a boss most enjoying work for, but an investor would never touch my business. In my world there would never be inflation. The salary cap would be the same each year, all money coming out of nowhere. Let's just call it "the jackpot".
Whether teams spent all of that money or not, the yearly contribution to them from the jackpot would be the same. If a team's balance at season end was 3.7 million, and the yearly gift to them is 40 million, the balance heading into the new season would be 43.7 million. In effect teams could "tank" for a better shot the next season or even five seasons down the road. Teams could trade away players for cash, raising their balance. There would be free agency so that players could seek an upper echelon salary, but that salary could never be higher than the allotted salary for said level. Allotted salaries would never change. Players in their prime would earn the better of the allotted salaries, those on the decline or less talented would not make as much.